Engadget releases iPhone app

All I want is for www.engadget.com and www.tuaw.com to redirect me to i.[engadget|tuaw].com when appropriate, be it Mobile Safari or some RSS aggregator app with built-in browser support.

How can that be too much to ask? I don't get it.

Actually, I really like the Comments Tab feature in the Engadget app. I hope it will inspire Tuaw app developers!

This is more of a comment for many of the commenters who talked about wanting all their news in one place. I used to use an RSS aggregator too but I stopped using that and now just check my feed on http://www.yourversion.com. I get a real-time update on news, blogs, Twitter posts, etc related to only my interests. In fact, I found this post via yourversion.com... They have a free iPhone app too. Cheers!

To me, this feels like another app that falls under the category of "It could of been done as a web app". Seriously, they could of just improved the interface of i.engadget.com to include these same features.

I just hope PasteryKit goes public so we can get better, close-to-natve-app-like interfaces for webpages like this.

But I agree with some, I don't want to clutter up my iPhone with a ton of apps just to check certain news sites.

I like that it integrates the posts from the site, as well as the podcast, and has a better system for commenting from your iphone. I'd like the next version to include push notifications for news, though.

I wonder if the Engadget app will be the same as the Engadget website: where the comments section is filled with anti-Apple rage (Highest Ranked!) and anyone who says anything positive about Apple is first derided and then downranked to oblivion.

That place has become an infested pit of anti-Apple hater trolls. (The comments section, not the blog articles themselves.) I tend not to even visit the site anymore as they seem content to allow the comments section to be policed by the Redmond Defense Force.

News apps like these can give certain stories weight over others, something feed readers can't.

Personally, I don't really care about that but some do.

Yeah, I mean, I like TUAW and Engadget, and I've got hundreds of apps, but I really want one place for this stuff: RSS. That's readily available. And while it's not always a feature rich as one of these apps, it's generally faster for more content.

That said, I wouldn't mind a Weblogs, Inc. app. One that takes all their blogs and gives me access to all the content and web galleries. I read enough of them that only adding 1 app over an RSS would make sense.

So...is there any reason to use this as opposed to one of the many great RSS apps out there? I thought TUAW *condemned* having individual apps for every single newsfeed, denouncing that company that was booted by Apple from the App store for releasing hundreds of single-newsfeed apps.

I may be speaking for myself here, but when it comes to my news reading I want less things to check (i.e. I use an RSS aggregator), not more.

Here it's not just "You gotta check another website" but "You gotta open another whole app". I won't be installing this app on my iPhone.